The present study investigated the effect of female identification on power perception and climate consciousness. It was hypothesized that female identification would lead to perceiving power as a...Show moreThe present study investigated the effect of female identification on power perception and climate consciousness. It was hypothesized that female identification would lead to perceiving power as a responsibility and that a stronger sense of responsibility increases an individual’s climate consciousness. This was tested with UK participants (N = 251) which are working in management and leadership positions, taking part in a questionnaire; data was followed up by two linear regressions and a mediation analysis. The results showed that, in line with expectations, women perceived their power more as a responsibility than men did. However, unexpectedly, responsibility and climate consciousness were negatively correlated. Therefore, individuals identifying as female were not more climate conscious because of their heightened sense of responsibility in leadership positions. The opposite effect was found for male identification, as through their decreased sense of responsibility the mediation analysis led to an increased climate consciousness. Therefore, the hypotheses in this study were only partly confirmed. The outcomes have practical implications for human resource management and politics, as certain characteristics can be determined for the “right” leadership positions. Given the necessity of climate change, more research is needed to examine which leadership characteristics would serve the best outcomes for the environment.Show less
Flexibility in the decisions researchers make during their research can lead to false positive findings. Due to low transparency in published papers in the field of psychology, the amount of...Show moreFlexibility in the decisions researchers make during their research can lead to false positive findings. Due to low transparency in published papers in the field of psychology, the amount of flexibility authors had is often unclear. In the current thesis, in a first step a quantitative measure of Replication Value is applied to a random set of studies (n = 1257) from Social Psychology, using citation count as a proxy for impact and sample size as a proxy for uncertainty. This Replication Value has been suggested as an indicator of how worthwhile it is to replicate a study (see Isager et al., in press), and can be applied to a large number of studies due to its quantitative approach. However, Replication Value is based on solely on quantitative proxies. Therefore, it is necessary to also manually examine papers. In a second step of the current thesis, it is manually explored whether the uncertainty that researchers have when making choices during their research can become clearer by mapping them. Therefore, the studies with the highest Replication Values (n = 10), with the median Replication Values (n = 10), and with the lowest Replication Values (n = 10) were examined on their reporting transparency and potential Researcher Degrees of Freedom. A detailed analysis of the first results indicated that the qualitative analysis of the Researcher Degrees of Freedom of original researchers is helpful to in selecting which study to replicate after making a larger selection based on RV. The findings from this exploratory research are discussed in the context of the field of Social Psychology, with an emphasis on how researchers looking to select a target for replication can use our DFS to map the uncertainty of original work.Show less
